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Top artists in antinuke auction Worthy, rare 'Terms of Endearment' a .1 ft X-J till 4 i r-" -is iwr lit i c-r iif jM -j" i. ---sr cal Council for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze and $250,000 for the National Nuclear Freeze Campaign. "The first three artists I contacted were Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, and Dick Diebenkorn," explains Mazur. "To set some parameters on who would be invited, I stuck to the generation that had reached an established position in art by around 1965. The original request was that each artist give a work in the $20,000 range." Mazur notes federal law prevents artists from deducting more than the cost of materials when they donate work to a tax-exempt cause, but that, even so, the artists contacted were so willing that "I could have put together a show 10 times tills size." "There has bern a minimum of ego-tripping," Mazur goes on.

"Even distinguished artists who weren't invited have come forth to help cut: Neil Welliver, for instance, is on the New York benefit committee. There has been an extraordinary effort from people who had never before been involved in the antinuclear campaign. By Christine Temin Globe Staff David Hockney, Alex Katz, Robert Motherwell and Roy Lichten-stein are among the artists, all in the household word category, who have donated work for a unique exhibit. "Art for a Nuclear Weapons Freeze," which comes to Boston this weekend. The paintings, sculpture and prints by 24 artists are on a nine-city tour of the US which brings them to the Barbara Krakow Gallery, 10 Newbury Friday, when guests who have paid $100 for the privilege will bid on the works in a silent auction whose results will be announced in New York Dec.

3. (The Boston benefit auction takes place from 4-6 p.m. and from 8-10 p.m.: call 262-4490 for information.) The public is invited to view the show Saturday only, before it travels to New York. Cambridge artist Michael Ma-zur, who has worked on the exhibit for a year and a half along with a distinguished committee of curators, art dealers, artists, and politicians, says that the goal of the show is to raise $100,000 for the lo even Jeff Daniels, whose understandable resentment of the deep tie between his wife and his mother-in-law (who loathes him) finally erupts in an affair with one of his students. And the ever-reliable John Lithgow fills the screen with squashed decency as the Iowa bank manager who extricates Winger from an unpleasant moment in a supermarket checkout line and enjoys her favors until they say goodbye at a Burger King.

But Nicholson takes the biggest gamble, using virtuosic understatement to hold his own against MacLaine's flamboyance. His bloated carousing seems to extend the debunking of the astronauts in "The Right Stuff." But he lets a glint of devilishness flicker through the aimlessness. And his slow, understated deliveries make us come to him. He draws us into a character we never feel is very deep, yet he makes us think he's worth knowing anyway. And MacLaine and Winger catch us up in the way they go for broke in their big scenes.

The chemistry is there in "Terms of Endearment." It's in the tradition of "The Turning Point" and "Ordinary People," about the baggage that goes with loving, about how hard loving is to stop once you've begun it. It's a pleasure. "iOKyOljan Hi-Mi Debra Winger and Shirley MacLaine as daughter and mother. GOODLY REVIEW I MOVIE TERMS OF ENDEARMENT Directed by James Brooks, screenplay by Brooks from Larry McMurtry's novel, starring Debra Winger, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Nicholson. Jejf Daniels, John Lithgow.

Danny DeVito, Lisa Hart Carroll, at the Cheri and suburbs, rated PG. By Jay Carr G'lobe Staff "Terms of Endearment" Is that uncommon kind of American movie, the kind that doesn't just manipulate our feelings, but releases them. It rates a resounding yes because it doesn't insult our emotional intelligence. It not only hands Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger a juicy mother-daughter relationship, but respects the complicated spectrum of emotions in that relationship. You don't have to be a mother or daughter to find things in "Terms of Endearment" that get to you.

Although full of heartbreak, it is fundamentally affirmative. It respects the complexity, the value and what is sometimes the sheer perversity of love, reminds us that it's demanding, but worth it." One of the things that makes the film endearing is its constant awareness of how love can persevere. MacLaine and Winger spend their lives trying to figure out how they're going to act upon the love they can't stop feeling for one another. Each has a man in her life -Winger an English-professor husband, the widowed MacLaine an astronaut lover, played with sly, laconic rascality by Jack Nicholson -but the men in their respective lives seem to exist on the periphery. As a little girl, the Winger character is told to take care of her just-tyidowed mother, and it's an assignment that doesn't stop.

It's the mother who gets into the little rfirl's bed for comfort, and the blurring of mother and daughter roles Continues despite the mother's tjossiness. MacLaine's fiftyish Aurora Greenway comes on like a steamroller encrusted in ice. There's something comical about the way she simultaneously receives her three sheep-like suitors (Danny De Vito's undersized Vernon, in whose eyes she can do no wrong, is the most touchingly ludicrous). You just know she's going to want the unruly Nicholson, the during bedroom scenes. She makes them seem cozy and invitingly domestic.

She's a little earth mother, in some respects similar to her own mother, but less neurotic. She, too, has no difficulty airing her feelings, and she's just as toughly adorable as she was in "An Officer and a Gentleman," even when she's whisked to New York for a scene that seems to exist only to show her to advantage against a clutch of brittle Manhattan career women. The men are emotional lightweights compared to those two female powerhouses, yet all emerge with at least a degree of charm, CREATURES By William Gibson www Our season "celebrating the American Playwright' presents Arthur Miller's The Crucible Nov. 30 thru Dec. 10 Spingold Theater Brandeis University Call 894-4343 FINAL WEEK The 1 u.s.

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It's hard to believe that this woman, whose face looks as if it was set in cement, would suddenly be willing to relinquish the control she places so much store by. Early on. Winger asks her why she doesn't face up to the fact that she has biological needs. "Because I don't," is her scathing reply. We believe it.

Still, she's a woman of value. And wit." "Imagine you having date with someone where it wouldn't necessarily be a felony," she says to the jailbait-chasing Nicholson when the subject of a lunch date comes up. She's poison to her daughter's marriage is your life going to get better if you're going to keep having children with that but she's no hypocrite. She knows who she is, and so do we. It just takes a lot of strength to be loved by her.

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